Stormwatch (SkyWatch Friday)

The weather forecast for Wednesday evening was not good. Heavy rain, winds, flash flooding. There were reports of animals in pairs seeking a large boat. When the weather front moved over our house all the predictions felt plausible.




The clouds were going in all directions. We got some good rain – 25 mm in the rain gauge, but that’s about as reliable as a politician. Some places near us had a lot more rain, but it brought flash floods and a bit of damage. I’ll settle for 25 mm of rain.



You can find more skies from around the world at SkyWatch Friday.


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Enjoy the skies.

World Bird Wednesday - Silver Gulls

These Silver Gulls seemed very interested in out sandwiches last weekend. But like all opportunists, they could not help but keep an eye open for other sources of food!

These are our most common gull in Australia – they are the typical chip stealers that we know and love!




You can find more birds from around the world at World Bird Wednesday.



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Enjoy the birds.

Our World Tuesday - Melbourne through the Ozone

This is all the remains of the paddle steamer Ozone. It was sunk off the coast of Indented Head – a small fishing port in Port Phillip Bay - to act as breakwater. You can see the CBD of Melbourne in the background, across the bay.


This beach is a wonderful area for just wading about when it’s hot.

You can find more places from around the world at Our World Tuesday.

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Enjoy the pictures.

Macro Monday - Bolt Heads

Found this bolt holding together a section of retaining wall near the sea when I was away last weekend.
The second set is on a board walk that is very popular with walkers and cyclists – hence the polish!


Rather like the effect in black and white. Not much more to say!





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Enjoy the close ups!

Point Lonsdale - SkyWatch Friday.

Managed to take a long weekend this week – with the help of the government giving us a day off for a horse race! No real interest there, but I’ll take the day off. Spent 4 days at Point Lonsdale, dodging showers, going to the beach and watching the sky change almost by the second.

This was one of its better efforts!


Melbourne sits on a large bay – and these picture are taken from its western shores. I’m tempted to call the whole post “Looking for Gemma” as another regular on these memes posts many shots from the land on the horizon of these shots. I have often wondered if we would ever end up taking picture of the same cloud, but from different parts of the bay.

Anyway, enough of this!

You can find more skies from around the world at SkyWatch Friday.

You can also see the most recent post on my other blog by clicking the Paying Ready Attention picture on the RHS of the screen.

Enjoy the skies.

World Bird Wednesday - Superb Fairy Wrens

These birds are male Superb Fairy Wrens. They were feeding in the grass and flowers around our cottage when we were on holiday. They would attack their own reflections in the windows of the house and on the cars windscreen. One bird actually landed on the car within seconds of us pulling up to the cottage.

That’s a really high degree of territoriality!





You can find more birds from around the world at World Bird Wednesday.

You can also see the most recent post on my other blog by clicking the Paying Ready Attention picture on the RHS of the screen.

Enjoy the birds.